Friday, January 1, 2016

We haven’t sent out a newsletter since last spring, and we haven’t posted regularly to our respective blogs in the last few months, but we do have a fairly decent excuse … we have been busy preparing for and launching a huge change in our lives.

We are now officially Plein Air Streaming!

We sold our home in August and hit the road in October in our new Airstream to spend winter in Texas while we gear up to travel the country for plein air events Patrick Saunders will participate in next year. We are mobile now, and while we have no idea how long this adventure will last, or where it will take us, we are loving the journey. We count ourselves lucky to have had very few hiccups so far in easing into this new lifestyle. In fact, it’s been like fish to water - we may never settle down in one place again! Who knows? The best part is not having to know. We can just go with the flow.

Patrick is still painting portraits and accepting commissions, but is focused primarily on painting from life these days. I am focused on outdoor and lifestyle stock photography, so both our personal and professional lives have moved out in the open air, becoming more plein air, so to speak, except when the weather disagrees. But since our house is on wheels, we are free to chase the sun. So we are literally going to Plein Air Stream our way across the country, slowly though, in hopes of fully enjoying and experiencing every place we visit.

And we invite you to travel along with us. You can follow our adventures (and misadventures) in 2016, if you like, in whatever way suits your fancy - you can sign up to follow our Plein Air Streaming blog, and/or follow us on your social media of choice at our other links on our website here.

We’ve been enjoying the holidays the last few weeks, and haven’t been very diligent about communicating, but we promise to do better in the new year. I personally am so excited to see how Patrick is growing and developing as an artist, and I love documenting that process. I look forward to much more of that in 2016.

Patrick and I hope you all had a wonderful holiday season, and we wish each of you all the best in the new year!